Pepin I of Aquitaine

Pepin I of Aquitaine (797-13 December 838) was the King of Aquitaine from 817 to 838, succeeding Louis the Pious and preceding Charles the Bald and Pepin II of Aquitaine.

Biography
Pepin was born in 797, the second son of Louis the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye. In August 817 he was given the kingdom of Aquitaine by his father when his father partitioned the Frankish Empire, but in 830 he rebelled against his father at the insistence of his brother Lothaire of Italy's adviser Wala of Corbie, leading an army of Gascons to Paris with the support of Neustria. His father marched back from a campaign in Brittany to Compeigne, where Pepin surrounded his father's forces and captured him. However, the rebellion broke up. Pepin was unfazed, and rebelled again in 832. The Bavarian insurrection of Louis the German drew off Louis the Pious, and Pepin took Limoges. Soon, Lothaire joined the rebellion, as did Archbishop Ebbo of Reims. In 833 the rebels deposed their father, but Louis' behavior alienated Pepin, who helped to reinstate his father in 834. Pepin was restored as King of Aquitaine, and ruled until his death in 838. The kingship was contested between Charles the Bald and Pepin II of Aquitaine after his death.